Sentence examples for a witch-finder from inspiring English sources

Those who, like some of Thursday's panellists, wish to claim that electors voted for a particular pattern of outcomes, or intended this outcome to yield a particular pattern of coalition, base their case on arguments that are as rational as those of a witch-finder general.

A witch-finder general who investigated Clarke ordered that she be deprived of food and sleep until she confessed to practicing witchcraft.

He thereupon became a "Witch Finder Generall," going about Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Huntingdon getting villagers and townspeople to hire him and his two assistants (for a fee) to search out witches, force their confessions, and have them hanged by the authorities.

The story details the heavily fictionalised murderous witch-hunting exploits of Matthew Hopkins, a 17th-century English lawyer who claimed to have been appointed as a "Witch Finder Generall" by Parliament during the English Civil War to root out sorcery and witchcraft.

It's essentially a clown show, in which Christie dons a series of hats and unconvincingly impersonates the witch-finder generals, diarists and plagues that populated the age.

One person described Mr Clarke as "the witch-finder general", but the council said it was happy with his appointment, that he was the right man for the job and there would be no duplication between the parallel inquiries.

Political and religious chaos reigned throughout the period of the English Civil Wars (1642-49) and it was with this distraction that the previously unheard of, Matthew Hopkins, assumed the title of Witch-finder General in 1645.

Rather than meddle in an art form they cannot understand, the prissy witch-finders of Menlo Park might consider paying more UK tax than a registered nurse on the median NHS salary.

It could spend the next few months stirred up by angry witch-finders while the Tories implement an agenda Margaret Thatcher would have balked at.

Puritan witch-finders and the Spanish Inquisition disagreed violently about how God ordered the world.

After being accused of consorting with the devil, she has to face two of England's most feared witch-finders, Clarke and Warren Stevee Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith).